Robert Aime Maheu (1916-2008)

[Jim Hougan]

The most thorough investigation of the Galindez case was probably the one that Alan Fitzgibbon undertook. Sadly, he died before it could be completed. That said, Alan was positive that Galindez was grabbed off the street and flown to the Dominican Republic from a private airport in Amityville. Once in the Dominican Republic, the kidnapped professor was tortured and interrogated. He was then thrown into the sea at a location that was routinely used for the disposal of garbage - which, of course, meant that it was infested by sharks.

It's a tragedy that Fitzgibbon didn't live to finish his book. His extensive files on the case were, I believe, obtained by Bud Fensterwald's Committee to Investigate Assassinations - but their current whereabouts would seem to be unknown.

[Harry J.Dean]

FYI....

ROBERT AIME MAHEU (1916-2008) has passed on.

There is an outstanding, very detailed interview with him from November 2007 available at....

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine...amp;si=0#artanc

His obituary....

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colad...-dies-at-9.html

<QUOTE>

Maheu dies at 91; was liaison in CIA plot

A footnote to history. Robert A. Maheu, who in late 1960 served as go-between with the Mafia in a CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro, died in Las Vegas on Tuesday. He was 91. Maheu, who in 1960 was an aide to industrialist Howard Hughes, was asked by the CIA to find someone who might assassinate Castro. Maheu turned to Las Vegas mobster John Roselli, Chicago godfather Salvatore Giancana and Florida mob boss Santos Trafficante.

According to CIA archives declassified in 2007, Giancana recommended "some kind of deadly pill, something to be put into Castro's food or drink." He "indicated that he had a possible candidate in the person of Juan Orta, a Cuban official who had been receiving bribery payments in the gambling racket and who still had access to Castro." Trafficante delivered "six highly lethal pills" to Orta. "After several weeks of attempts, Orta appears to have chickened out and asked to be taken off the mission," the CIA narrative says. "He suggested another candidate, who made several unsuccessful tries."

In an article written last year, Castro recalled that in 1960, "working with me in the offices of the National Institute for Agrarian Reform was a man named Orta. [...] He was a respectful and serious man, but it could only be him. [...] I cannot lay my hands on information to immediately prove what happened to him."

---Renato Pérez Pizarro.

<END QUOTE>

..... from the AP....

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/former-hughes...805193909990083

<QUOTE>

Former Hughes' confidant dies in Las Vegas

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY,AP

Posted: 2008-08-05 19:39:38

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Robert A. Maheu, a former Howard Hughes confidant and CIA operative once involved in a failed plot to poison Fidel Castro, has died in a Las Vegas hospital. He was 90.

Maheu died Monday evening of congestive heart failure at Desert Springs Hospital, according to his son, Peter Maheu.

Maheu was the public face of Hughes' massive corporate empire in the 1960s, a period in which the troubled aviator and one-time Hollywood playboy was increasingly reclusive and dogged by phobias. Hughes spent the later part of the decade holed up in his Las Vegas hotel suite, directing Maheu and his casino and development interests via memo.

Maheu said he occasionally protected the billionaire from himself.

"There were some memos where references pertaining to absolute power were sent to me. To protect him from himself, I took no action on those memos," Maheu told The Associated Press in a 1986 interview. "To buy a particular president or to buy someone into the White House - no action was taken in that direction."

Maheu was an expert in discretion.

He worked for the FBI in the early 1950s and later as a private investigator who counted the CIA among his clients.

In 1960, Maheu was enlisted by the CIA to recruit a mobster for a "sensitive mission requiring gangster-type action," according to a recently released CIA dossier known as "the family jewels."

"Fidel Casto is the mission target," the document said.

Maheu approached reputed gangster Johnny Roselli and represented himself as an agent for international corporations wanting the Cuban leader dead, according to the document.

Roselli introduced Maheu to two wanted mobsters, Momo Giancana, Al Capone's successor in Chicago, and Santos Trafficante. The CIA gave them six poison pills, and they tried unsuccessfully for several months to have several people put them in the Castro's food.

The plot was dropped after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the document said.

Maheu later described his role in the Cold War plot in stark terms.

"War will make you do certain things," he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1997.

"He said it took him many nights to decide to work for the CIA," Peter Maheu said. "But for the greater good of the country, he agreed to go ahead. It was a very patriotic thing in his mind. Even though it conflicted with his Catholicism."

Peter Maheu described his father as devout, energetic and loyal.

He returned to investigative work after he was abruptly fired by Hughes' company shortly after its chief mysteriously slipped out Las Vegas in 1970. Maheu sued for breach of contract and won a $2 million judgment.

"He always had a respect for Howard Hughes," Peter Maheu said. "But he felt that he was betrayed by the people around him."

"The biggest regret of my life is not grabbing Howard Hughes with my two hands, shaking him by the shoulders and saying, `Enough is enough,"' Robert Maheu told the Review-Journal.

After leaving Las Vegas, Hughes traveled the globe. His legal problems increased and his health deteriorated. He died in 1976.

Maheu remained in Las Vegas, a city he adored.

"He called it a city with a heartbeat," his son said.

Maheu was born in Waterville, Maine. He is survived by his three sons and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled Saturday.

<END QUOTE>

Best Regards in Research,

Don

Don Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, "Big John," Plank Walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

Discovery: ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film Documented 2nd Headsnap : Westward, Ultrafast, & Directly Towards the "Grassy Knoll"

Dealey Plaza Professionally-surveyed Map Detailing 11-22-63 Victims locations, Witnesses, Photographers, Suspected trajectories, Evidentiary artifacts, & Important information & considerations

President KENNEDY "Men of Courage: 4 Principles" speech, and a portion of fellow researchers articles and my research & discoveries, 1975 to present

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

National Terror Alert for the United States:

"Drehm seemed to think the shots came from in FRONT OF or BESIDE

the President." (my EMPHASIS)

----CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States

Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza

attack witness, quoted only minutes after the attack, and while he

is still standing within Dealey Plaza (11-22-63 "Dallas Times Herald,"

fifth & final daily edition, which mis-spelled his name)

"Another eyewitness, Charles Brehm, said he was 15 feet away from the

President when he was shot.

'He was waving, then the FIRST shot hit him and that awful look

crossed his face.' " (my EMPHASIS)

CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army

Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack

witness (quoted to the "Associated Press," 11-22-63)

[Harry J.Dean]

FYI....

ROBERT AIME MAHEU (1916-2008) has passed on.

There is an outstanding, very detailed interview with him from November 2007 available at....

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine...amp;si=0#artanc

His obituary....

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colad...-dies-at-9.html

<QUOTE>

Maheu dies at 91; was liaison in CIA plot

A footnote to history. Robert A. Maheu, who in late 1960 served as go-between with the Mafia in a CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro, died in Las Vegas on Tuesday. He was 91. Maheu, who in 1960 was an aide to industrialist Howard Hughes, was asked by the CIA to find someone who might assassinate Castro. Maheu turned to Las Vegas mobster John Roselli, Chicago godfather Salvatore Giancana and Florida mob boss Santos Trafficante.

According to CIA archives declassified in 2007, Giancana recommended "some kind of deadly pill, something to be put into Castro's food or drink." He "indicated that he had a possible candidate in the person of Juan Orta, a Cuban official who had been receiving bribery payments in the gambling racket and who still had access to Castro." Trafficante delivered "six highly lethal pills" to Orta. "After several weeks of attempts, Orta appears to have chickened out and asked to be taken off the mission," the CIA narrative says. "He suggested another candidate, who made several unsuccessful tries."

In an article written last year, Castro recalled that in 1960, "working with me in the offices of the National Institute for Agrarian Reform was a man named Orta. [...] He was a respectful and serious man, but it could only be him. [...] I cannot lay my hands on information to immediately prove what happened to him."

---Renato Pérez Pizarro.

<END QUOTE>

..... from the AP....

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/former-hughes...805193909990083

<QUOTE>

Former Hughes' confidant dies in Las Vegas

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY,AP

Posted: 2008-08-05 19:39:38

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Robert A. Maheu, a former Howard Hughes confidant and CIA operative once involved in a failed plot to poison Fidel Castro, has died in a Las Vegas hospital. He was 90.

Maheu died Monday evening of congestive heart failure at Desert Springs Hospital, according to his son, Peter Maheu.

Maheu was the public face of Hughes' massive corporate empire in the 1960s, a period in which the troubled aviator and one-time Hollywood playboy was increasingly reclusive and dogged by phobias. Hughes spent the later part of the decade holed up in his Las Vegas hotel suite, directing Maheu and his casino and development interests via memo.

Maheu said he occasionally protected the billionaire from himself.

"There were some memos where references pertaining to absolute power were sent to me. To protect him from himself, I took no action on those memos," Maheu told The Associated Press in a 1986 interview. "To buy a particular president or to buy someone into the White House - no action was taken in that direction."

Maheu was an expert in discretion.

He worked for the FBI in the early 1950s and later as a private investigator who counted the CIA among his clients.

In 1960, Maheu was enlisted by the CIA to recruit a mobster for a "sensitive mission requiring gangster-type action," according to a recently released CIA dossier known as "the family jewels."

"Fidel Casto is the mission target," the document said.

Maheu approached reputed gangster Johnny Roselli and represented himself as an agent for international corporations wanting the Cuban leader dead, according to the document.

Roselli introduced Maheu to two wanted mobsters, Momo Giancana, Al Capone's successor in Chicago, and Santos Trafficante. The CIA gave them six poison pills, and they tried unsuccessfully for several months to have several people put them in the Castro's food.

The plot was dropped after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the document said.

Maheu later described his role in the Cold War plot in stark terms.

"War will make you do certain things," he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1997.

"He said it took him many nights to decide to work for the CIA," Peter Maheu said. "But for the greater good of the country, he agreed to go ahead. It was a very patriotic thing in his mind. Even though it conflicted with his Catholicism."

Peter Maheu described his father as devout, energetic and loyal.

He returned to investigative work after he was abruptly fired by Hughes' company shortly after its chief mysteriously slipped out Las Vegas in 1970. Maheu sued for breach of contract and won a $2 million judgment.

"He always had a respect for Howard Hughes," Peter Maheu said. "But he felt that he was betrayed by the people around him."

"The biggest regret of my life is not grabbing Howard Hughes with my two hands, shaking him by the shoulders and saying, `Enough is enough,"' Robert Maheu told the Review-Journal.

After leaving Las Vegas, Hughes traveled the globe. His legal problems increased and his health deteriorated. He died in 1976.

Maheu remained in Las Vegas, a city he adored.

"He called it a city with a heartbeat," his son said.

Maheu was born in Waterville, Maine. He is survived by his three sons and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled Saturday.

<END QUOTE>

Best Regards in Research,

Don

Don Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, "Big John," Plank Walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

Discovery: ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film Documented 2nd Headsnap : Westward, Ultrafast, & Directly Towards the "Grassy Knoll"

Dealey Plaza Professionally-surveyed Map Detailing 11-22-63 Victims locations, Witnesses, Photographers, Suspected trajectories, Evidentiary artifacts, & Important information & considerations

President KENNEDY "Men of Courage: 4 Principles" speech, and a portion of fellow researchers articles and my research & discoveries, 1975 to present

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

National Terror Alert for the United States:

"Drehm seemed to think the shots came from in FRONT OF or BESIDE

the President." (my EMPHASIS)

----CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States

Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza

attack witness, quoted only minutes after the attack, and while he

is still standing within Dealey Plaza (11-22-63 "Dallas Times Herald,"

fifth & final daily edition, which mis-spelled his name)

"Another eyewitness, Charles Brehm, said he was 15 feet away from the

President when he was shot.

'He was waving, then the FIRST shot hit him and that awful look

crossed his face.' " (my EMPHASIS)

CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army

Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack

witness (quoted to the "Associated Press," 11-22-63)

above attempt to post failed, could not figure how to dump it.

Hj Dean

[Guest]

Private Investigative Firms - Robert Maheu.

Pros and Cons of the Maheu Case.

Thanks to Malcolm Blunt, scans by me.

 

[Guest]

SSC - Robert Maheu.

[Joe Bauer]

6 hours ago, Bart Kamp said:

SSC - Robert Maheu.

Ominous dark stuff regards Maheu.

His involvement with Howard Hughes ... wonder if he did gain control of the man those last years?